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Maybe a little-- or what
I call a drinking song.

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It isn't as I pointed out
the kind of drinking song

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that Mario Lanza used to
sing in huge German beer

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halls but my own private
little kind of drinking song.

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I watched that movie again, that
Student Prince on television

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and it's just, it
was really wild.

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That whole tradition
of scholarship

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is slowly floating out of
American English departments,

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which is sort of nice too,
now that I've sort of given up

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on them or they've
given up on me.

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"Drinking Song."

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I want to die in
the saddle as it

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were an enemy of civilization.

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I want to walk around in the
woods and fish and drink.

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I'm going to be a child
about it and I can't help it,

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I was born this
way and it makes me

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very happy to fish and drink.

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I left when it was still
dark and walked down

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the path of the river, the
yellow dog, where I spent

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the day fishing and drinking.

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After she left me and I quit
my job, and wept for years

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and all my poems
were born dead, I

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decided I would
only fish and drink.

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Water will never leave Earth and
whiskey is good for the brain.

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What else am I supposed to do
in these last days but fish

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and drink.

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In the river was a trout
and I was on the bank,

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my heart, my chest, clouds
above, and she was in New York

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forever and I
fishing and drinking.

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